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Book SynopsisExplores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant labourersTrade ReviewLentz's work is distinguished by the intensity of its focus. Not soon is anyone likely to cover her chosen topic and place more thoroughly. * African Studies Review *[An] impressive book . . . Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa deserves a wide readership, as it does much to improve our understanding of how property and belonging is established and contested under spatially and organizationally fluid circumstances. * Anthropological Quarterly *Careful research design and case justification, and probing of arguments with detailed empirical material, make Lentz's arguments compelling for political scientists as well as the social and economic anthropologists and historians who make up much of the natural constituency for this impressive study. * Journal of Modern African Studies *A short review cannot do justice to a magisterial historical and contemporary (through 2001) account of processes of change and continuity. Rich in narratives, readers will be grateful for the attention to comparison, nuance, and detail. * American Anthropologist *[A] major contribution to the ethnography of the north of Ghana, an area seriously underserved in this regard . . . and to the ongoing national debate in Ghana about land ownership and the fiercely contested claims of autochthons and strangers.85.2 May 2015 * Africa *This book makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the transformation of African concepts of land tenure. It shows that history and memory are important resources in conflicts over property and belonging. . . . The book adds to the recent debates on customary tenure by exploring the precolonial history of property claims. * Journal of West African History *[This] book makes a remarkable contribution to the growing literature on mobility in Africa. Its emphasis on both the social and spatial strategies of West African agriculturalists makes it a highly recommended read for scholars and policymakers dealing with migration, mobility, resource management, and land conflict resolution in West Africa. * Journal of African History *This significant study enhances understanding of the dynamics of rural societies across the continent. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Lentz's work is Africanist ethnography and history at its finest and is a masterfully compiled piece of scholarship on issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in Africa. In wonderful ethnographic detail, the author presents a stimulating and historically rich treatment of ethnic group mobility and the ways in which different societies legitimate their land claims. This volume should be considered essential reading to all scholars working on the interface between land and identity in Africa. * Anthropos *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Pushing Frontiers: The Social Organisation of Mobility2. Staking Claims: Earth Shrines, Ritual Power and Property Rights3. Setting Boundaries, Negotiating Entitlements: Contested Borders and 'Bundles' of Rights4. Ethnicity, Autochthony and the Politics of Belonging5. History vs. history: Contemporary Land Conflicts in a Context of Legal and Institutional PluralismNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant labourersTrade ReviewLentz's work is distinguished by the intensity of its focus. Not soon is anyone likely to cover her chosen topic and place more thoroughly. * African Studies Review *[An] impressive book . . . Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa deserves a wide readership, as it does much to improve our understanding of how property and belonging is established and contested under spatially and organizationally fluid circumstances. * Anthropological Quarterly *Careful research design and case justification, and probing of arguments with detailed empirical material, make Lentz's arguments compelling for political scientists as well as the social and economic anthropologists and historians who make up much of the natural constituency for this impressive study. * Journal of Modern African Studies *A short review cannot do justice to a magisterial historical and contemporary (through 2001) account of processes of change and continuity. Rich in narratives, readers will be grateful for the attention to comparison, nuance, and detail. * American Anthropologist *[A] major contribution to the ethnography of the north of Ghana, an area seriously underserved in this regard . . . and to the ongoing national debate in Ghana about land ownership and the fiercely contested claims of autochthons and strangers.85.2 May 2015 * Africa *This book makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the transformation of African concepts of land tenure. It shows that history and memory are important resources in conflicts over property and belonging. . . . The book adds to the recent debates on customary tenure by exploring the precolonial history of property claims. * Journal of West African History *[This] book makes a remarkable contribution to the growing literature on mobility in Africa. Its emphasis on both the social and spatial strategies of West African agriculturalists makes it a highly recommended read for scholars and policymakers dealing with migration, mobility, resource management, and land conflict resolution in West Africa. * Journal of African History *This significant study enhances understanding of the dynamics of rural societies across the continent. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Lentz's work is Africanist ethnography and history at its finest and is a masterfully compiled piece of scholarship on issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in Africa. In wonderful ethnographic detail, the author presents a stimulating and historically rich treatment of ethnic group mobility and the ways in which different societies legitimate their land claims. This volume should be considered essential reading to all scholars working on the interface between land and identity in Africa. * Anthropos *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Pushing Frontiers: The Social Organisation of Mobility2. Staking Claims: Earth Shrines, Ritual Power and Property Rights3. Setting Boundaries, Negotiating Entitlements: Contested Borders and 'Bundles' of Rights4. Ethnicity, Autochthony and the Politics of Belonging5. History vs. history: Contemporary Land Conflicts in a Context of Legal and Institutional PluralismNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisEngaging study decentres conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.Trade ReviewFehérváry breaks new ground in a field that has only recently received scholarly attention in Western academia. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *Fehérváry's book . . . joins a growing body of recent studies of consumption and everyday materialities under socialism. Few, however, so creatively explore socialist consumption's aesthetic and affective dimensions or trace continuities in consumer subjectivities across the pre-/post-1989 divide. * American Historical Review *There is much to admire about this book. . . I appreciated Fehervary's critical insights into topics as diverse as gendered personhood, folklorization, and Janos Kornai's economic models.73.3 Fall 2014 * Slavic Review *Fehérváry's exemplary scholarship, both historical and ethnographic, takes us through both socialist modernism and post-socialist consumer modernism in the development of contemporary Hungary. -- Daniel Miller * MaterialWorldblog.com *Politics in Color and Concrete is a model for richly historical ethnography and an important contribution to the second generation of scholarship on post-socialist Europe. . . . [It]will be of great interest to scholars of socialism and post-socialism, class, consumer culture, and aesthetics alike. * Council for European Studies *Politics in Color and Concrete is an eloquent analysis of the material transformations of domestic space during the four decades of socialism and the following political-economic transformation in Hungary. . . . Fehérváry's approach not only brings a fresh look at the period through its focus on everyday materialities but also offers a welcome correction to the often-simplified understandings of abrupt socialist–capitalist change. * American Anthropologist *[A] serious historical analysis inflected throughout by a sophisticated ethnographic sensibility. . . . [and] an important contribution to the second generation of scholarship on post-socialist Europe.6/4/14 * Reviews and Critical Commentary *Politics in Color and Concrete is one of the best ethnographies of artificial things—and Hungary, Eastern Europe, post-socialism, and materiality—currently available. * American Ethnologist *Politics in Color and Concrete is mandatory reading for all scholars of Communism in Eastern Europe. * Austrian History yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete 1. Normal Life in the Former Socialist City2. Socialist Realism in the Socialist City3. Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens4. Socialist Generic and the Branding of the State5. Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism6. Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality and Status7. The New Family House and the New Middle ClassEpilogueConclusion: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds

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Book SynopsisEngaging study decentres conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.Trade ReviewFehérváry breaks new ground in a field that has only recently received scholarly attention in Western academia. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *Fehérváry's book . . . joins a growing body of recent studies of consumption and everyday materialities under socialism. Few, however, so creatively explore socialist consumption's aesthetic and affective dimensions or trace continuities in consumer subjectivities across the pre-/post-1989 divide. * American Historical Review *There is much to admire about this book. . . I appreciated Fehervary's critical insights into topics as diverse as gendered personhood, folklorization, and Janos Kornai's economic models.73.3 Fall 2014 * Slavic Review *Fehérváry's exemplary scholarship, both historical and ethnographic, takes us through both socialist modernism and post-socialist consumer modernism in the development of contemporary Hungary. -- Daniel Miller * MaterialWorldblog.com *Politics in Color and Concrete is a model for richly historical ethnography and an important contribution to the second generation of scholarship on post-socialist Europe. . . . [It]will be of great interest to scholars of socialism and post-socialism, class, consumer culture, and aesthetics alike. * Council for European Studies *Politics in Color and Concrete is an eloquent analysis of the material transformations of domestic space during the four decades of socialism and the following political-economic transformation in Hungary. . . . Fehérváry's approach not only brings a fresh look at the period through its focus on everyday materialities but also offers a welcome correction to the often-simplified understandings of abrupt socialist–capitalist change. * American Anthropologist *[A] serious historical analysis inflected throughout by a sophisticated ethnographic sensibility. . . . [and] an important contribution to the second generation of scholarship on post-socialist Europe.6/4/14 * Reviews and Critical Commentary *Politics in Color and Concrete is one of the best ethnographies of artificial things—and Hungary, Eastern Europe, post-socialism, and materiality—currently available. * American Ethnologist *Politics in Color and Concrete is mandatory reading for all scholars of Communism in Eastern Europe. * Austrian History yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete 1. Normal Life in the Former Socialist City2. Socialist Realism in the Socialist City3. Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens4. Socialist Generic and the Branding of the State5. Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism6. Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality and Status7. The New Family House and the New Middle ClassEpilogueConclusion: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds

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Book SynopsisExpands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists.Trade ReviewThis book is a valuable source of information for Africanists interested in the role played by women in the continuity of tradition in African culture. . . . Recommended. * Choice * Women's Songs from West Africa, is a valuable resource for scholars interested in West African music, and represents a remarkable achievement. * Ethnomusicology Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionWomen's Songs and Singing in West Africa: New PerspectivesThomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou1. Wolof Women Break the Taboo of Sex through Songs Marame Gueye2. Jola Kanyalen Songs from the Casamance, Sengeal: From 'Tradition' to Globalization Kirsten Langeveld3. Azna Deities in the Songs of Taguimba Bouzou: A Window on the Visible and Invisible Boubé Namaïwa4. Initiation and Funeral Songs from the Guro of Côte d'IvoireAriane Deluz5. Praises Performances by Jalimusolu in The Gambia Marloes Janson6. Music about Feminine Modernity in the Sahara Aline Tauzin 7. Songs by Wolof Women Luciana Penna-Diaw 8. A Heroic Performance by Siramori Diabate of MaliBrahima Camara and Jan Jansen9. Women's Tattooing Songs from Kajoor, SenegalGeorge Joseph10. Drummed Poems by Songhay-Zarma Women of NigerFatima Mounkaïla11. Space, Language, and Identity in the Palm TreeAissata G. Sidikou12. Bambara Women's Songs in Southern MaliBah Diakité 13. Patriarchy in Songs and Poetry by Zarma WomenAissata Niandou14. Muslim Hausa Women's SongsBeverly B. Mack 15. Lamentation and Politics in the Sahelian SongThomas A. Hale16. Transformations in Tuareg Tende Singing: Women's Voices and Local FeminismsSusan J. Rasmussen17. Income Strategies of a Jelimuso in Mali and FranceNienke MuurlingIndexList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisBook explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communitiesTrade ReviewThe achievements in this book are multiple. Its diversity of ethnographic settings and field techniques, its historical depth, the bold injection of new ideas for the study of pastoralism, and the clear scope for comparative analysis all converge to bring home the message that encounters with neoliberalism must be described and analyzed in nuanced, site-specific contexts. The book will be a compelling read for anthropologists and development practitioners, including those less familiar with the African continent. The book's long gestation was worth the wait. * American Anthropologist *This book is well written and the narratives are enlightening. It should be recommended reading for students of African development. * International Social Science Review *Political and Economic Reform in Africa is a sharp and insightful book, offering the reader firsthand knowledge of the effects of neoliberal policies and donor-initiated development on rural farming and herding populations on the ground. The book's examples are rich and detailed, and would well serve university courses in development and rural economy, but also in agencies carrying out development. * African Studies Review *Economic and Political Reform in Africa is a fascinating and wide ranging treatment of neoliberal development policy in sub-Saharan Africa. This text should be required reading for anybody interested in African development, and would be of significant interest to anybody interested in neoliberal development in post-colonial settings. * African Studies Bulletin *This is a rich, informative book on extremely complicated processes in Africa. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: What it means to be "Reformed?" 1. 'They Think We Can Manufacture Crops:' Contract Farming and the Non-Traditional Commodity Business2. 'Everybody is a Petty Trader:' Peri-Urban Trade in Post-Conflict Maputo, Mozambique3. 'We Now Milk Elephants:' The Community Conservation Business in Rural Kenya4. 'They are Beating Us Over the Head with Democracy:' Multi-Party Elections in Rural Kenya 5. 'The Government is always telling us what to think:' Narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia6. 'Counting the poor:' The politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya7. 'A sort of free business:' Stateless Somalia and a hyper-liberalized economyConclusions: Rethinking encounters and reformist narratives NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBook explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communitiesTrade ReviewThe achievements in this book are multiple. Its diversity of ethnographic settings and field techniques, its historical depth, the bold injection of new ideas for the study of pastoralism, and the clear scope for comparative analysis all converge to bring home the message that encounters with neoliberalism must be described and analyzed in nuanced, site-specific contexts. The book will be a compelling read for anthropologists and development practitioners, including those less familiar with the African continent. The book's long gestation was worth the wait. * American Anthropologist *This book is well written and the narratives are enlightening. It should be recommended reading for students of African development. * International Social Science Review *Political and Economic Reform in Africa is a sharp and insightful book, offering the reader firsthand knowledge of the effects of neoliberal policies and donor-initiated development on rural farming and herding populations on the ground. The book's examples are rich and detailed, and would well serve university courses in development and rural economy, but also in agencies carrying out development. * African Studies Review *Economic and Political Reform in Africa is a fascinating and wide ranging treatment of neoliberal development policy in sub-Saharan Africa. This text should be required reading for anybody interested in African development, and would be of significant interest to anybody interested in neoliberal development in post-colonial settings. * African Studies Bulletin *This is a rich, informative book on extremely complicated processes in Africa. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: What it means to be "Reformed?" 1. 'They Think We Can Manufacture Crops:' Contract Farming and the Non-Traditional Commodity Business2. 'Everybody is a Petty Trader:' Peri-Urban Trade in Post-Conflict Maputo, Mozambique3. 'We Now Milk Elephants:' The Community Conservation Business in Rural Kenya4. 'They are Beating Us Over the Head with Democracy:' Multi-Party Elections in Rural Kenya 5. 'The Government is always telling us what to think:' Narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia6. 'Counting the poor:' The politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya7. 'A sort of free business:' Stateless Somalia and a hyper-liberalized economyConclusions: Rethinking encounters and reformist narratives NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFor centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs.Trade Review[A]n eclectic collection that spans from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, offers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and ethnomusicologists. . . We gain a sense of the evolving goals of outside powers: Russian and Persian missions sought to halt a burgeoning slave trade; Indian princedoms sought allies; Chinese Qing bureaucrats sought to categorize and rule the peoples on the edge of their empire; German anthropologists sought an 'Aryan heartland'; and the British worked to define geographic markers to their advantage in the nineteenth century 'Great Game' with the tsarist empire. * American Historical Review *In his engaging, lucid introduction to 'Writing Travel in Central Asian History', Nile Green writes that its chapters use the lens of travel writing to 'explore the different meanings given to Central Asia in the far corners of the world during the region's most intensive periods of globalization between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries'. . . intriguing and valuable . . . .May 2016 * Journal of Asian Studies *Accustomed as we have become to appraise Central Asia through the prism of postcolonialism, Nile Green's collection turns our collective head 180 degrees. The eight essays and Green's introduction that frames them sets us off in an entirely new direction. . . . The essays provide a new approach for the study of Central Asia, and, they are excellent for this reason. * Slavic Review *Aiming 'to connect Central Asia to global history', this body of research will prove an important anthology for scholars and advanced students alike who are interested in exploring the cultural connections uniting these proximate spheres. * Central Asian Survery *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Travel, Writing and the Global History of Central Asia Nile Green Part I. Identity, Information and Trade, c.1500-18501. Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism' between Central Asia and India Sanjay Subrahmanyam 2. Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth Century Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia Ron Sela3. Central Asians in the Eighteenth Century Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples Laura Hostetler4. The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Abbas Amanat and Arash KhazeniPart II. Empire, Archaeology and the Arts, c.1850-19405. 'The Rubicon between the Empires': The River Oxus in the Nineteenth Century British Geographical Imaginary Kate Teltscher6. Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia Imre Galambos7.: A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's Travelogue in Verse Ronald Vroon 8. Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American Travelers on Central Asian Women's Lives and Music Tanya Merchant

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Book SynopsisFor centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs.Trade Review[A]n eclectic collection that spans from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, offers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and ethnomusicologists. . . We gain a sense of the evolving goals of outside powers: Russian and Persian missions sought to halt a burgeoning slave trade; Indian princedoms sought allies; Chinese Qing bureaucrats sought to categorize and rule the peoples on the edge of their empire; German anthropologists sought an 'Aryan heartland'; and the British worked to define geographic markers to their advantage in the nineteenth century 'Great Game' with the tsarist empire. * American Historical Review *In his engaging, lucid introduction to 'Writing Travel in Central Asian History', Nile Green writes that its chapters use the lens of travel writing to 'explore the different meanings given to Central Asia in the far corners of the world during the region's most intensive periods of globalization between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries'. . . intriguing and valuable . . . .May 2016 * Journal of Asian Studies *Accustomed as we have become to appraise Central Asia through the prism of postcolonialism, Nile Green's collection turns our collective head 180 degrees. The eight essays and Green's introduction that frames them sets us off in an entirely new direction. . . . The essays provide a new approach for the study of Central Asia, and, they are excellent for this reason. * Slavic Review *Aiming 'to connect Central Asia to global history', this body of research will prove an important anthology for scholars and advanced students alike who are interested in exploring the cultural connections uniting these proximate spheres. * Central Asian Survery *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Travel, Writing and the Global History of Central Asia Nile Green Part I. Identity, Information and Trade, c.1500-18501. Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism' between Central Asia and India Sanjay Subrahmanyam 2. Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth Century Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia Ron Sela3. Central Asians in the Eighteenth Century Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples Laura Hostetler4. The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Abbas Amanat and Arash KhazeniPart II. Empire, Archaeology and the Arts, c.1850-19405. 'The Rubicon between the Empires': The River Oxus in the Nineteenth Century British Geographical Imaginary Kate Teltscher6. Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia Imre Galambos7.: A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's Travelogue in Verse Ronald Vroon 8. Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American Travelers on Central Asian Women's Lives and Music Tanya Merchant

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Book SynopsisIn December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, the author returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath. This book describes how catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics.Trade ReviewMichele Ruth Gamburd's new book contributes rich views into the micro-dynamics of local experiences of relief and reconstructions projects.Vol. 73.1-2 2014 * Asian Ethnology *The Golden Wave would be ideal for use in introductory-level undergraduate anthropology or sociology courses on disasters and humanitarian aid. It would also be well placed in introductory courses on economic anthropology. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Sensitively written, this an articulate social anthropologist's examination of the immediate and ongoing much longer impact of 2004's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. . . This is the best kind of microstudy. It merits much praise for its thick description and authenticity. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[G]amburd shows that all of the narratives demonstrate how 'Under cover of disaster, capitalist interests can pursue neoliberal agendas, humanitarian workers can implement culturally inappropriate policies, and people pursuing international economic and political agendas can ignore or refuse local input'—a story that is repeated over and over from Nicaragua to New Orleans to Pakistan and beyond, and to which Gamburd has added rich narrative coupled with insightful analysis.71.2 2015 * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Political Ethnography of DisasterWijitha's Story1. That day: Chaos and SolidarityDr. Priyanka's Story2. Deaths: Fate and VulnerabilityPradeep and Manoj's Story3. Short-term Camps: Chaos and the Crafting of OrderSumendra's Story4. Housing: Temporary Shelters, Permanent Homes, and the Buffer ZoneLalitha's Story5. Dangerous Liaisons: The Power, Peril, and Politics of Mediating between Donors and RecipientsJagath's Story6. Business Recovery: Tourism and ConstructionDayawansa's Story7. Reconstructing Class: Discourse on Theft, Loot, Cheating, and GiftsFazmina's Story8. The Politics of Corruption: Accusations and RebuttalsTharindu's Story9. Citizenship and Ethnicity: The Tsunami and the Civil WarConclusion

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Book SynopsisIn December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, the author returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath. This book describes how catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics.Trade ReviewMichele Ruth Gamburd's new book contributes rich views into the micro-dynamics of local experiences of relief and reconstructions projects.Vol. 73.1-2 2014 * Asian Ethnology *The Golden Wave would be ideal for use in introductory-level undergraduate anthropology or sociology courses on disasters and humanitarian aid. It would also be well placed in introductory courses on economic anthropology. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Sensitively written, this an articulate social anthropologist's examination of the immediate and ongoing much longer impact of 2004's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. . . This is the best kind of microstudy. It merits much praise for its thick description and authenticity. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[G]amburd shows that all of the narratives demonstrate how 'Under cover of disaster, capitalist interests can pursue neoliberal agendas, humanitarian workers can implement culturally inappropriate policies, and people pursuing international economic and political agendas can ignore or refuse local input'—a story that is repeated over and over from Nicaragua to New Orleans to Pakistan and beyond, and to which Gamburd has added rich narrative coupled with insightful analysis.71.2 2015 * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Political Ethnography of DisasterWijitha's Story1. That day: Chaos and SolidarityDr. Priyanka's Story2. Deaths: Fate and VulnerabilityPradeep and Manoj's Story3. Short-term Camps: Chaos and the Crafting of OrderSumendra's Story4. Housing: Temporary Shelters, Permanent Homes, and the Buffer ZoneLalitha's Story5. Dangerous Liaisons: The Power, Peril, and Politics of Mediating between Donors and RecipientsJagath's Story6. Business Recovery: Tourism and ConstructionDayawansa's Story7. Reconstructing Class: Discourse on Theft, Loot, Cheating, and GiftsFazmina's Story8. The Politics of Corruption: Accusations and RebuttalsTharindu's Story9. Citizenship and Ethnicity: The Tsunami and the Civil WarConclusion

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Book SynopsisProvides a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life.Trade ReviewEthnographies of the State in Central Asia is the right kind of edited volume. . . . it showcases the richness and diversity of the scholarship that is being carried out at the intersection of anthropology and science. The chapters . . . speak the same conceptual language, address each other's claims, and complement each other's insights. . . . The volume is enjoyable to read and largely jargon-free, meaning that it is suitable for assigning in an undergraduate course, but it is theoretically sophisticated enough that it will serve as a valuable source for graduate research as well. * Russian Review *It is a rare edited volume that keeps readers moving from chapter to chapter like a single-author book, but that is precisely what Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia accomplishes. * Central Asian Survey *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia Johan Rasanayagam, Judith Beyer, and Madeleine ReevesPart I. Staging the Political1. The Global Performance State: A Reconsideration of the Central Asian "Weak State" John Heathershaw2. Dialogic Authority: Kazakh Aitys Poets and Their Patrons Eva-Marie Dubuisson3. Performing Democracy: State-Making through Patronage in Kyrgyzstan Aksana Ismailbekova4. "There is This Law..." Performing the State in the Kyrgyz Courts of Elders Judith BeyerPart II. Political Materials, Political Fantasies5. The Master Plan of Astana: Between the "Art of Government" and the "Art of Being Global" Alima Bissenova6. State Building(s): Built Forms, Materiality, and the State in Astana Mateusz Laszczkowski7. The Bulldozer State: Chinese Socialist Development in Xinjiang Ildikó Bellér-Hann8. The Time of the Border: Contingency, Conflict and Popular Statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Boundary Madeleine ReevesPart III. Moral Positionings9. Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: Morality, Criminality and Dissident Politics in Uzbekistan Sarah Kendzior10. The Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan: The Case of Namangan's "New Uzbeks" Tommaso Trevisani11. Massacre Through a Kaleidoscope: Fragmented Moral Imaginaries of the State in Central Asia Morgan Liu12. Cold War Memories and Post-Cold War Realities: The Politics of Memory and Identity in the Everyday Life of Kazakhstan's Radiation Victims Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts

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Book SynopsisProvides a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life.Trade ReviewEthnographies of the State in Central Asia is the right kind of edited volume. . . . it showcases the richness and diversity of the scholarship that is being carried out at the intersection of anthropology and science. The chapters . . . speak the same conceptual language, address each other's claims, and complement each other's insights. . . . The volume is enjoyable to read and largely jargon-free, meaning that it is suitable for assigning in an undergraduate course, but it is theoretically sophisticated enough that it will serve as a valuable source for graduate research as well. * Russian Review *It is a rare edited volume that keeps readers moving from chapter to chapter like a single-author book, but that is precisely what Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia accomplishes. * Central Asian Survey *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia Johan Rasanayagam, Judith Beyer, and Madeleine ReevesPart I. Staging the Political1. The Global Performance State: A Reconsideration of the Central Asian "Weak State" John Heathershaw2. Dialogic Authority: Kazakh Aitys Poets and Their Patrons Eva-Marie Dubuisson3. Performing Democracy: State-Making through Patronage in Kyrgyzstan Aksana Ismailbekova4. "There is This Law..." Performing the State in the Kyrgyz Courts of Elders Judith BeyerPart II. Political Materials, Political Fantasies5. The Master Plan of Astana: Between the "Art of Government" and the "Art of Being Global" Alima Bissenova6. State Building(s): Built Forms, Materiality, and the State in Astana Mateusz Laszczkowski7. The Bulldozer State: Chinese Socialist Development in Xinjiang Ildikó Bellér-Hann8. The Time of the Border: Contingency, Conflict and Popular Statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Boundary Madeleine ReevesPart III. Moral Positionings9. Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: Morality, Criminality and Dissident Politics in Uzbekistan Sarah Kendzior10. The Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan: The Case of Namangan's "New Uzbeks" Tommaso Trevisani11. Massacre Through a Kaleidoscope: Fragmented Moral Imaginaries of the State in Central Asia Morgan Liu12. Cold War Memories and Post-Cold War Realities: The Politics of Memory and Identity in the Everyday Life of Kazakhstan's Radiation Victims Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts

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Book SynopsisThe state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. This study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa.Trade Review[A]n important, persuasive, and enduring work for its primary audience, as well as engaging reading for Christians and Hindus interested in learning from a painful moment of cultural encounter. * Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies *This is a passionate and honest book in its approach and contents. And it is worth reading for that very reason. Henn's account is at its best in the detailed anthropological and ethnographic descriptions of his chosen—and obviously much cherished—field: Goan village culture. * Journal of Jesuit Studies *[A] number of fine monographs have added further depth and nuance to questions of syncretism and hybridity . . . Alexander Henn's 'Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa' stands in this scholarly trajectory, and contributes significantly to it. March 2016 * Journal of Hindu Studies *Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa is a rich work in which the author shows the processes of religious interaction and development. The writing is clear and concise and would be great required reading for upper division undergraduate courses on religion that could easily range from courses on South Asia, Christianity, Hinduism, Religion and modernity, and a whole host of others. * newbooks.asia *[T]his is a refreshing and inspiring book, necessary to this ongoing debate on the Goan religious experience, and it should be read as a challenge and a complement to other recent literature that has the religious history of Goa as an object of analysis. * Studies in History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. Vasco Da Gama's Error: Conquest and Plurality 2. Image Wars: Iconoclasm, Idolatry, and Survival3. Christian Puranas: Hermeneutic, Similarity, and Violence4. Ganv: Place, Genealogy, and Bodies 5. Demotic Ritual: Religion and Memory 6. Crossroads of Religions: Shrines and Urban Mobility Conclusion. Religion and religions: Syncretism ReconsideredNotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisIs 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This book examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.Trade Review[Global Rome] is to be praised as an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome. February 2015 * H-Italy *[T]his is a decidedly welcome addition to the growing body of Anglophone work on Rome. * Urban History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Changing Faces of Rome ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJØRN THOMASSENPart I. Rome: The Local and the Global City1. Diversely Global Rome BJØRN THOMASSEN AND PIERO VERENI 2. The Liberal, the Neoliberal and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome MICHAEL HERZFELD3: Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries PIERLUIGI CERVELLI4. Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary Rome PIERPAOLO MUDU Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of Rome ALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman School PIERO VERENI7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short Tales ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in Rome MARCO SOLIMENE9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center CARLO CELLAMAREPart III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities10. Roma, Città Sportiva SIMON MARTIN11. Football, Romanità and the Search for Stasis MARK DYAL12. Rome's Contemporary Past VALERIE HIGGINSPart IV. The Informal City13. The Self-Made City CARLO CELLAMARE14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's Periphery FERRUCCIO TRABALZI15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village CRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space PIERPAOLO MUDU17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture FERRUCCIO TRABALZIContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. This book emphasizes contemporary culture-civil and social issues, art, religion, and the political scene-and provides an overview of significant themes that bear on Africa's place in the world.Trade ReviewAfrica is the product of careful planning and a great deal of hard work by many people recommended to any student who wishes to gain up-to-date information on the current sstate of knowledge in that increasingly complex and unwieldy specialization known as African Studies. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *An ideal undergraduate text for interdisciplinary courses or courses in history or politics. It could be used at an introductory graduate level, or by students of African studies wanting a brief background in another discipline . . . also an excellent book for non-academic purposes, simply for enjoyable reading. * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Much has changed in Africa and in African studies in the last ten years, but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *A treasure trove of information, critical analysis, and informed and informative comment. * Sunday Independent (Durban) *Here is a highly recommended multidisciplinary introductory volume, one which should appeal to the serious general reader as well as to the student specializing in African studies. * The Nigerian Field *[P]rovides an excellent introductory overview of the continent . . . . * Africa *Africa is the product of careful planning and a great deal of hard work by many people recommended to any student who wishes to gain up-to-date information on the current sstate of knowledge in that increasingly complex and unwieldy specialization known as African Studies.International Journal of African Historical Study * International Journal of African Historical Studies *From all indications, the fourth edition of Africa should not only endure the test of time, but also be found exceptionally useful by a wide spectrum of scholars, including college professors and their students in general. * Africa Today *This new edition offers a condensed yet thematically broad text suitable for both the undergraduate classroom and a popular audience. Abridged from twenty-one to fifteen chapters, Africa retains its tradition of interdisciplinary breadth by incorporating a range of accessible, thematically organized perspectives informed by the latest scholarship. * African Studies Review *An ideal undergraduate text for interdisciplinary courses or courses in history or politics. It could be used at an introductory graduate level, or by students of African studies wanting a brief background in another discipline . . . also an excellent book for non-academic purposes, simply for enjoyable reading. * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Much has changed in Africa and in African studies in the last ten years, but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *A treasure trove of information, critical analysis, and informed and informative comment. * Sunday Independent (Durban) *Here is a highly recommended multidisciplinary introductory volume, one which should appeal to the serious general reader as well as to the student specializing in African studies. * The Nigerian Field *[P]rovides an excellent introductory overview of the continent . . . .59.1 1989 * Africa *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Africa: A Geographic Frame James Delehanty 2. Legacies of the Past: Themes in African History John Akare Aden and John H. Hanson 3. Social Relations: Family, Kinship, and Community Maria Grosz-Ngaté 4. Making a Living: African Livelihoods Gracia Clark and Katherine Wiley5. Religions in Africa John H. Hanson6. Urban Spaces, Lives, and Projects in Africa Karen Tranberg Hansen7. Health, Illness, and Healing in African Societies Tracy J. Luedke8. Visual Art in Africa Patrick McNaughton and Diane Pelrine9. African Music Flows Daniel B. Reed and Ruth M. Stone 10. Literature in Africa Eileen Julien11. African Film Akin Adesokan 12. African Politics and the Future of Democracy Amos Sawyer, Lauren M. MacLean and Carolyn E. Holmes 13. Development in Africa: Tempered Hope Raymond Muhula and Stephen N. Ndegwa 14. Human Rights in Africa Takyiwaa Manuh 15. Print and Electronic Resources Marion Frank-Wilson ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. This study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa.Trade Review[A]n important, persuasive, and enduring work for its primary audience, as well as engaging reading for Christians and Hindus interested in learning from a painful moment of cultural encounter. * Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies *This is a passionate and honest book in its approach and contents. And it is worth reading for that very reason. Henn's account is at its best in the detailed anthropological and ethnographic descriptions of his chosen—and obviously much cherished—field: Goan village culture. * Journal of Jesuit Studies *[A] number of fine monographs have added further depth and nuance to questions of syncretism and hybridity . . . Alexander Henn's 'Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa' stands in this scholarly trajectory, and contributes significantly to it. March 2016 * Journal of Hindu Studies *Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa is a rich work in which the author shows the processes of religious interaction and development. The writing is clear and concise and would be great required reading for upper division undergraduate courses on religion that could easily range from courses on South Asia, Christianity, Hinduism, Religion and modernity, and a whole host of others. * newbooks.asia *[T]his is a refreshing and inspiring book, necessary to this ongoing debate on the Goan religious experience, and it should be read as a challenge and a complement to other recent literature that has the religious history of Goa as an object of analysis. * Studies in History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. Vasco Da Gama's Error: Conquest and Plurality 2. Image Wars: Iconoclasm, Idolatry, and Survival3. Christian Puranas: Hermeneutic, Similarity, and Violence4. Ganv: Place, Genealogy, and Bodies 5. Demotic Ritual: Religion and Memory 6. Crossroads of Religions: Shrines and Urban Mobility Conclusion. Religion and religions: Syncretism ReconsideredNotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisIs 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.Trade Review[Global Rome] is to be praised as an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome. February 2015 * H-Italy *[T]his is a decidedly welcome addition to the growing body of Anglophone work on Rome. * Urban History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Changing Faces of Rome ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJØRN THOMASSENPart I. Rome: The Local and the Global City1. Diversely Global Rome BJØRN THOMASSEN AND PIERO VERENI 2. The Liberal, the Neoliberal and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome MICHAEL HERZFELD3: Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries PIERLUIGI CERVELLI4. Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary Rome PIERPAOLO MUDU Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of Rome ALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman School PIERO VERENI7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short Tales ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in Rome MARCO SOLIMENE9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center CARLO CELLAMAREPart III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities10. Roma, Città Sportiva SIMON MARTIN11. Football, Romanità and the Search for Stasis MARK DYAL12. Rome's Contemporary Past VALERIE HIGGINSPart IV. The Informal City13. The Self-Made City CARLO CELLAMARE14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's Periphery FERRUCCIO TRABALZI15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village CRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space PIERPAOLO MUDU17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture FERRUCCIO TRABALZIContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRazsa's affirmative ethnography is by no means naive or uncritical, but rather exhibits a kind of intellectual generosity and political honesty that makes it a timely, persuasive and welcome addition to anthropology of anarchism. It is also great proof that good things still emerge out of long-term ethnographic engagement with a particular historical-geographic space. * PoLAR *Bastards of Utopia makes an excellent contribution to the study of political activism and the social movements that have left an imprint on local and international politics around the world—from the antiglobalization demonstrations of the turn of the century to the so-called Color Revolutions, Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street. * American Anthropologist *The book's cast of characters proves outspoken and sometimes violent, willing to don gas masks and wield Molotov cocktails during standoffs with authorities. In this manner, Razsa brings a personal note to his academic treatment of politics, protest, transnational movements, and globalization . . . This book will prove a boon to anyone interested in understanding the diverse world of contemporary protest, as variously made manifest in the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring, and Ferguson. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Grassroots Globalization in National Soil2. Uncivil Society: NGOs, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Limits of Polite Protest3. "Feeling the State on Your Own Skin": Direct Confrontation and the Production of Militant Subjects4. "Struggling For What Is Not Yet": The Right to the City in Zagreb5. The Occupy Movement: Direct Democracy and a Politics of BecomingConclusion: From Critique to Affirmation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis wonderful book brings fresh insights into the anthropology of hope in general and Egypt in particular. It makes a rewarding read for scholars interested in how life and all its ambiguities and aspirations unfold under changing notions of religious commitment, new regimes of circulation, and emerging patterns of consumption. * American Anthropologist *Prompts us to consider Egypt not just on its own terms, but as an exceedingly long and well-documented experiment in authoritarianism, a societal order that has turned into a great disorder.2/12/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Egypt in the Future Tense is an accessible and lively text for undergraduate and graduate students of the anthropology of the Middle East, religion, and a variety of topics from globalization and consumption, to activism and social movements. . . . Beyond anthropology, scholars of Middle East politics will find Schielke's ethnography a valuable addition to understanding the motivations and consequences of Egypt's 2011 impasse. * Middle East Journal *In his sensitive retelling and analysis of the life stories of several young Egyptian men (and a few women), Schielke . . . illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A moment in history1. Boredom and frustration2. An hour for your heart and an hour for your Lord3. Knowing Islam4. Love troubles5. Capitalist ethics?6. I want to be committed7. Engaging the world8. Condition: normal9. Those who said NoConclusion: On freedom, destiny, and consequences

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRazsa's affirmative ethnography is by no means naive or uncritical, but rather exhibits a kind of intellectual generosity and political honesty that makes it a timely, persuasive and welcome addition to anthropology of anarchism. It is also great proof that good things still emerge out of long-term ethnographic engagement with a particular historical-geographic space. * PoLAR *Bastards of Utopia makes an excellent contribution to the study of political activism and the social movements that have left an imprint on local and international politics around the world—from the antiglobalization demonstrations of the turn of the century to the so-called Color Revolutions, Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street. * American Anthropologist *The book's cast of characters proves outspoken and sometimes violent, willing to don gas masks and wield Molotov cocktails during standoffs with authorities. In this manner, Razsa brings a personal note to his academic treatment of politics, protest, transnational movements, and globalization . . . This book will prove a boon to anyone interested in understanding the diverse world of contemporary protest, as variously made manifest in the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring, and Ferguson. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Grassroots Globalization in National Soil2. Uncivil Society: NGOs, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Limits of Polite Protest3. "Feeling the State on Your Own Skin": Direct Confrontation and the Production of Militant Subjects4. "Struggling For What Is Not Yet": The Right to the City in Zagreb5. The Occupy Movement: Direct Democracy and a Politics of BecomingConclusion: From Critique to Affirmation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis wonderful book brings fresh insights into the anthropology of hope in general and Egypt in particular. It makes a rewarding read for scholars interested in how life and all its ambiguities and aspirations unfold under changing notions of religious commitment, new regimes of circulation, and emerging patterns of consumption. * American Anthropologist *Prompts us to consider Egypt not just on its own terms, but as an exceedingly long and well-documented experiment in authoritarianism, a societal order that has turned into a great disorder.2/12/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Egypt in the Future Tense is an accessible and lively text for undergraduate and graduate students of the anthropology of the Middle East, religion, and a variety of topics from globalization and consumption, to activism and social movements. . . . Beyond anthropology, scholars of Middle East politics will find Schielke's ethnography a valuable addition to understanding the motivations and consequences of Egypt's 2011 impasse. * Middle East Journal *In his sensitive retelling and analysis of the life stories of several young Egyptian men (and a few women), Schielke . . . illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A moment in history1. Boredom and frustration2. An hour for your heart and an hour for your Lord3. Knowing Islam4. Love troubles5. Capitalist ethics?6. I want to be committed7. Engaging the world8. Condition: normal9. Those who said NoConclusion: On freedom, destiny, and consequences

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn popular and media portrayals of Islam, images of fundamentalism and global terrorism obscure more everyday understandings of the varied lives of Muslims around the world. Mara Leichtman's engaging book on Shi'ism in Senegal is a refreshing antidote. * American Ethnologist *This book provides an original and timely analysis of the dynamics of religion and race in transnational migration. . . . Leichtman's book is sure to make an impact on African studies but should be read by non- Africanists as well. * Journal of West African History *This book is highly recommended for anyone with interest in African and Middle Eastern Affairs, Islam and Religious Studies, and Peace Studies. * African Studies Quarterly *[Leichtman's] volume is a theoretically packed, historically grounded and ethnographically rich exploration into minority religious communities and their migrations. * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Islam and Politics AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration Introduction: Locating Cosmopolitan Shi'i Islamic Movements in Senegal Part I. The Making of a Lebanese Community in SenegalIntroduction to Part I.1. French Colonial Manipulation and Lebanese Survival 2. Senegalese Independence and the Question of Belonging 3. Shi'i Islam Comes to Town: A Biography of Shaykh al-Zayn 4. Bringing Lebanese "Back" to Shi'i Islam Part II. Senegalese Conversion to Shi'i Islam5. The Vernacularization of Shi'i Islam: Competition and Conflict 6. Migrating from One's Parents' Traditions: Narrating Conversion Experiences Interlude: 'Umar: Converting to an "Intellectual Islam" 7. The Creation of a Senegalese Shi'i Islam Coda: On Shi'i Islam, Anthropology, and Cosmopolitanism Glossary Notes References

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn popular and media portrayals of Islam, images of fundamentalism and global terrorism obscure more everyday understandings of the varied lives of Muslims around the world. Mara Leichtman's engaging book on Shi'ism in Senegal is a refreshing antidote. * American Ethnologist *This book provides an original and timely analysis of the dynamics of religion and race in transnational migration. . . . Leichtman's book is sure to make an impact on African studies but should be read by non- Africanists as well. * Journal of West African History *This book is highly recommended for anyone with interest in African and Middle Eastern Affairs, Islam and Religious Studies, and Peace Studies. * African Studies Quarterly *[Leichtman's] volume is a theoretically packed, historically grounded and ethnographically rich exploration into minority religious communities and their migrations. * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Islam and Politics AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration Introduction: Locating Cosmopolitan Shi'i Islamic Movements in Senegal Part I. The Making of a Lebanese Community in SenegalIntroduction to Part I.1. French Colonial Manipulation and Lebanese Survival 2. Senegalese Independence and the Question of Belonging 3. Shi'i Islam Comes to Town: A Biography of Shaykh al-Zayn 4. Bringing Lebanese "Back" to Shi'i Islam Part II. Senegalese Conversion to Shi'i Islam5. The Vernacularization of Shi'i Islam: Competition and Conflict 6. Migrating from One's Parents' Traditions: Narrating Conversion Experiences Interlude: 'Umar: Converting to an "Intellectual Islam" 7. The Creation of a Senegalese Shi'i Islam Coda: On Shi'i Islam, Anthropology, and Cosmopolitanism Glossary Notes References

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis clear and objective study challenges strategists to reevaluate where the sources of power really reside and how these sources can be more effectively marshaled. * Enterprise and Society *This book will prove useful for graduate students in environmental management, sociology, and business departments, as well as policy makers and researchers investigating topics of consumption, corporate social responsibility, social movements, and environmental justice. It balances depth and breadth quite successfully, and incorporates empirical evidence and current literature to support discussions on conscientious consumerism. * Journal of Cleaner Production *Looking Behind the Label is a testament to the value of collaborative work that draws together scholars whose expertise is closely related—in this case, expertise on regulatory and governance structures for a range of global commodities—but distinct enough to add both depth and breadth to the analysis. . . . This is a fine, if sobering, contribution to our knowledge about consumption, market governance, and the realities of global production. * Contemporary Sociology *Looking Behind the Label is an important contribution to the literature on ethical consumption or political consumerism, and, more broadly, will be of interest to scholars and students of consumption, social movements, and global value chains. * Social Forces *Recommended. * Choice *Ultimately, the book moves readers away from individualistic stances on saving the world through buying 'socially responsible' products, to a much more critical sociological perspective by forcing us to look at how our political and economic structures can be the deepest source of international human rights violations and environmental degradation. * Mobilizing Ideas *As a collaborative project, Looking behind the Label benefits from the combined interdisciplinary expertise, making this a valuable contribution to the social sciences. . . . Reading this book can be an eye-opening experience for a variety of audiences from students of various levels to academics teaching and researching across the social sciences. * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Commonly Used AcronymsIntroduction: Rules, Responsibilities, and Rights in the Global EconomyPart I: Making Sense of Conscientious Consumerism1. The Making of Conscientious Consumers: Individual and National Patterns2. Dilemmas of Conscientious ConsumerismPart II: Behind the Label: Global Production and the Meaning of Standards3. Wood and Paper Products: Searching for Sustainability4. Food: Global Agriculture and Local Development 5. Apparel and Footwear: Standards for Sweatshops6. Electronics: The Hidden Costs of ComputingConclusion: Beyond Conscientious ConsumerismAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis clear and objective study challenges strategists to reevaluate where the sources of power really reside and how these sources can be more effectively marshaled. * Enterprise and Society *This book will prove useful for graduate students in environmental management, sociology, and business departments, as well as policy makers and researchers investigating topics of consumption, corporate social responsibility, social movements, and environmental justice. It balances depth and breadth quite successfully, and incorporates empirical evidence and current literature to support discussions on conscientious consumerism. * Journal of Cleaner Production *Looking Behind the Label is a testament to the value of collaborative work that draws together scholars whose expertise is closely related—in this case, expertise on regulatory and governance structures for a range of global commodities—but distinct enough to add both depth and breadth to the analysis. . . . This is a fine, if sobering, contribution to our knowledge about consumption, market governance, and the realities of global production. * Contemporary Sociology *Looking Behind the Label is an important contribution to the literature on ethical consumption or political consumerism, and, more broadly, will be of interest to scholars and students of consumption, social movements, and global value chains. * Social Forces *Recommended. * Choice *Ultimately, the book moves readers away from individualistic stances on saving the world through buying 'socially responsible' products, to a much more critical sociological perspective by forcing us to look at how our political and economic structures can be the deepest source of international human rights violations and environmental degradation. * Mobilizing Ideas *As a collaborative project, Looking behind the Label benefits from the combined interdisciplinary expertise, making this a valuable contribution to the social sciences. . . . Reading this book can be an eye-opening experience for a variety of audiences from students of various levels to academics teaching and researching across the social sciences. * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Commonly Used AcronymsIntroduction: Rules, Responsibilities, and Rights in the Global EconomyPart I: Making Sense of Conscientious Consumerism1. The Making of Conscientious Consumers: Individual and National Patterns2. Dilemmas of Conscientious ConsumerismPart II: Behind the Label: Global Production and the Meaning of Standards3. Wood and Paper Products: Searching for Sustainability4. Food: Global Agriculture and Local Development 5. Apparel and Footwear: Standards for Sweatshops6. Electronics: The Hidden Costs of ComputingConclusion: Beyond Conscientious ConsumerismAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review The book's analysis of the relations between the political, the cultural, and the neoliberal economy through a historical engagement with the city of Jaffa is a significant contribution to understanding the complexity of life for Jaffa's residents. * Journal of Levantine Studies *Anybody with an interest in the politics and sociology of Israeli/Palestinian relations needs to read this book. Daniel Monterescu provides a rich and theoretically sophisticated account of urban politics in Jaffa. * Perspectives on Politics *In showing how Jaffa is both shared and shattered, the book is an important and timely contribution to ongoing debates about mutual relations between Palestinians and Israelis in the context of recurring conflict, entrenched inequality and ongoing colonisation. It is essential reading for everyone interested in contemporary Palestinian–Israeli relations and should be of particular interest to political and urban anthropologists. * Social Anthropology *For anyone who would like to understand the experience of living as a member of the minority Arab population in a 'mixed' city in Israel, then Jaffa is both the place and the study to read. . . [T]his is a well-researched, very worthwhile excursus into a complicated societal problem. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Jaffa Shared and Shattered is a rich and provocative addition to the scholarly literature on Palestine/ Israel and urban studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contrived Coexistence: Relational Histories of Urban Mix in Israel/Palestine Part I. Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Communal Formations and Ambivalent Belonging1. Spatial Relationality: Theorizing Space and Sociality in Jewish-Arab "Mixed Towns"2. The Bridled "Bride of Palestine": Urban Orientalism and the Zionist Quest for Place3. The "Mother of the Stranger": Palestinian Presence and the Ambivalence of SumudPart II. Sharing Place or Consuming Space: The Neoliberal City4. Inner Space and High Ceilings: Agents and Ideologies of Ethnogentrification5. To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated CommunityPart III. Being and Belonging in the Binational City: A Phenomenology of the Urban 6. Escaping the Mythscape: Tales of Intimacy and Violence7. Situational Radicalism and Creative Marginality: The "Arab Spring" and Jaffa's CountercultureConclusion: The City of the Forking Paths: Imagining the Futures of Binational UrbanismNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe volume's richly detailed case studies build bridges between the anthropology of religion and current anthropological theories of morality, ethics, and social suffering. * American Ethnologist *This volume will be widely welcomed as dovetailing with a range of recent treatments, notably by Peter Geschiere and Richard Werbner, of how practical wisdom may consist of identifying apparently familiar others as uncanny threats, or alternately of recognizing distortions of the familiar within oneself. * Journal of African History *This timely book adds to knowledge in the area of African religions. . . . [T]he book is valuable in highlighting how complex evil is as expressed and experienced in Africa. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen Part I. Evil and the State/War 1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched Sónia Silva 2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika 3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State Jok Madut Jok 4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide Jennie E. Burnet 5. Politics and Cosmographic Anxiety: Kongo and Dagbon Compared Wyatt MacGaffey Part II. Evil and Religion 6. Ambivalence and the Work of the Negative Among the Yaka René Devisch 7. Azé and the Incommensurable Léocadie Ekoué with Judy Rosenthal 8. Evil and the Art of Revenge in the Mandara Mountains Walter E.A. van Beek 9. Distinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini Diane Ciekawy 10. Haunted by Absent Others: Movements of Evil in a Nigerian City Ulrika Trovalla 11. Attributions of Evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal Roy Dilley 12. Reflections regarding Good and Evil: The Complexity of Words in Zanzibar Kjersti Larsen 13. Constructing Moral Personhood: The Moral Test in Tuareg Sociability as a Commentary on Honor and Dishonor Susan J. Rasmussen 14. The Gender of Evil: Maasai Experiences and Expressions Dorothy L. Hodgson Part III. Evil and Modernity 15. Neo-Cannibalism, Military Bio-Politics, and the Problem of Human Evil Nancy Scheper-Hughes 16. Theft and Evil in Asante William C. Olsen 17. Sorcery after Socialism: Liberalization and Anti Witchcraft Practices in Southern Tanzania Maia Green 18. Transatlantic Pentecostal Demons in Maputo Linda van de Kamp 19. The Meaning of "Apartheid" and the Epistemology of Evil Adam AshforthList of Contributors and Affiliations Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe volume's richly detailed case studies build bridges between the anthropology of religion and current anthropological theories of morality, ethics, and social suffering. * American Ethnologist *This volume will be widely welcomed as dovetailing with a range of recent treatments, notably by Peter Geschiere and Richard Werbner, of how practical wisdom may consist of identifying apparently familiar others as uncanny threats, or alternately of recognizing distortions of the familiar within oneself. * Journal of African History *This timely book adds to knowledge in the area of African religions. . . . [T]he book is valuable in highlighting how complex evil is as expressed and experienced in Africa. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen Part I. Evil and the State/War 1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched Sónia Silva 2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika 3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State Jok Madut Jok 4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide Jennie E. Burnet 5. Politics and Cosmographic Anxiety: Kongo and Dagbon Compared Wyatt MacGaffey Part II. Evil and Religion 6. Ambivalence and the Work of the Negative Among the Yaka René Devisch 7. Azé and the Incommensurable Léocadie Ekoué with Judy Rosenthal 8. Evil and the Art of Revenge in the Mandara Mountains Walter E.A. van Beek 9. Distinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini Diane Ciekawy 10. Haunted by Absent Others: Movements of Evil in a Nigerian City Ulrika Trovalla 11. Attributions of Evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal Roy Dilley 12. Reflections regarding Good and Evil: The Complexity of Words in Zanzibar Kjersti Larsen 13. Constructing Moral Personhood: The Moral Test in Tuareg Sociability as a Commentary on Honor and Dishonor Susan J. Rasmussen 14. The Gender of Evil: Maasai Experiences and Expressions Dorothy L. Hodgson Part III. Evil and Modernity 15. Neo-Cannibalism, Military Bio-Politics, and the Problem of Human Evil Nancy Scheper-Hughes 16. Theft and Evil in Asante William C. Olsen 17. Sorcery after Socialism: Liberalization and Anti Witchcraft Practices in Southern Tanzania Maia Green 18. Transatlantic Pentecostal Demons in Maputo Linda van de Kamp 19. The Meaning of "Apartheid" and the Epistemology of Evil Adam AshforthList of Contributors and Affiliations Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zuzanna Olszewska's virtuoso study explores how young progressive Afghan intellectuals use the writing and performance of poetry as a prestigious discourse, to sustain community and claim dignity in exile. Her work makes an essential new contribution in Persian literary studies, ethnolinguistics, and refugee cultural studies worldwide." -Margaret A. Mills, Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore, Ohio State University "Well beyond its focus on a community of Persian-speaking Afghan intellectuals living in exile in Mashhad, Iran, over the past three decades, The Pearl of Dari offers the reader the precious pearl of a genuine reading and learning experience. Zuzanna Olszewska combines solid scholarship with uplifting sensitivity to create a lively narrative replete with joyful discoveries of genuine personhood, agency, and humanity in the midst of multiple marginalities, an account of growing up amid layer upon layer of tension, bravely defying overwhelming odds." -Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of MarylandTable of ContentsPrefaceA Note on the Translations, Transliteration, and DatesIntroduction1. Border Crossings and Fractured Selves: A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran2. The Melancholy Modern: The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia3. Afghan Literary Organizations in Post-revolutionary Iran4. The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry5. Modern Love: Poetry, Companionate Marriage and Recrafting the Self6. "When Your Darun Speaks to You": Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric PoetryConclusionEpilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[R]eaders of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses... [P]rovides a new and coherent orientation to what has been happening in the field." -Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher HoustonAfterword Michael Jackson

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMusic and Music and the Armenian Diaspora is a wonderful contribution to the study of Armenian music and a sophisticated exploration of what it means (and has meant) to be Armenian in the world. * H-Music *[S]omeone familiar with the path of the Armenian peoples—their various cultures, histories, and experiences in multiple contexts—would approach this book with apprehension and care, hoping and perhaps dreading to learn from the complex history, genocide, and rebirth/remaking of the Armenian people. In Music and the Armenian Diaspora . . . Sylvia Angelique Alajaji presents and explores all of these things through music and perspectives on music with clarity, compassion, and open eyes, in ways that are appropriately challenging and accessible to social scientists, historians, and anyone with a deep interest in Armenia or Armenian people. * Notes *Covering with much detail a wide variety of musical phenomena that have been hitherto ignored in Armenian music scholarship, Music and the Armenian Diaspora is a landmark work that challenges many of the orthodoxies about Armenian music as it is conceived of today. . . . The lucid writing style, the empatheic and observant attention to forgotten musical histories, and the excellent selection of included recordings, make Music and the Armenian Diaspora a book that deserves to be read by a wide range of readers interested in topics as varied as music and conflict, diaspora studies and the cultural dimensions of genocide. * The World of Music *Table of ContentsGuide to Online Media ExamplesIntroduction1. Ottoman Empire, 1890-1915: Komitas Vartaped and the Construction of "Armenia"2. New York, 1932-19583. Beirut, 1932-19584. Beirut, 1958-19805. CaliforniaNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zuzanna Olszewska's virtuoso study explores how young progressive Afghan intellectuals use the writing and performance of poetry as a prestigious discourse, to sustain community and claim dignity in exile. Her work makes an essential new contribution in Persian literary studies, ethnolinguistics, and refugee cultural studies worldwide." -Margaret A. Mills, Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore, Ohio State University "Well beyond its focus on a community of Persian-speaking Afghan intellectuals living in exile in Mashhad, Iran, over the past three decades, The Pearl of Dari offers the reader the precious pearl of a genuine reading and learning experience. Zuzanna Olszewska combines solid scholarship with uplifting sensitivity to create a lively narrative replete with joyful discoveries of genuine personhood, agency, and humanity in the midst of multiple marginalities, an account of growing up amid layer upon layer of tension, bravely defying overwhelming odds." -Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of MarylandTable of ContentsPrefaceA Note on the Translations, Transliteration, and DatesIntroduction1. Border Crossings and Fractured Selves: A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran2. The Melancholy Modern: The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia3. Afghan Literary Organizations in Post-revolutionary Iran4. The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry5. Modern Love: Poetry, Companionate Marriage and Recrafting the Self6. "When Your Darun Speaks to You": Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric PoetryConclusionEpilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMusic and Music and the Armenian Diaspora is a wonderful contribution to the study of Armenian music and a sophisticated exploration of what it means (and has meant) to be Armenian in the world. * H-Music *[S]omeone familiar with the path of the Armenian peoples—their various cultures, histories, and experiences in multiple contexts—would approach this book with apprehension and care, hoping and perhaps dreading to learn from the complex history, genocide, and rebirth/remaking of the Armenian people. In Music and the Armenian Diaspora . . . Sylvia Angelique Alajaji presents and explores all of these things through music and perspectives on music with clarity, compassion, and open eyes, in ways that are appropriately challenging and accessible to social scientists, historians, and anyone with a deep interest in Armenia or Armenian people. * Notes *Covering with much detail a wide variety of musical phenomena that have been hitherto ignored in Armenian music scholarship, Music and the Armenian Diaspora is a landmark work that challenges many of the orthodoxies about Armenian music as it is conceived of today. . . . The lucid writing style, the empatheic and observant attention to forgotten musical histories, and the excellent selection of included recordings, make Music and the Armenian Diaspora a book that deserves to be read by a wide range of readers interested in topics as varied as music and conflict, diaspora studies and the cultural dimensions of genocide. * The World of Music *Table of ContentsGuide to Online Media ExamplesIntroduction1. Ottoman Empire, 1890-1915: Komitas Vartaped and the Construction of "Armenia"2. New York, 1932-19583. Beirut, 1932-19584. Beirut, 1958-19805. CaliforniaNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHemment's research counters the larger myth of an all-powerful state pulling the strings of civic activism. She skillfully weaves together a complex picture from multiple encounters and collaborations of what does and does not motivate Russia's young future leaders, many of whom are thoughtfully struggling with what they want out of life and how that may contribute to improving the lives of those around them. * Russian Review *This fascinating book presents a highly original account of the similarities between youth policies in Russia and around the world, and gives us a novel, grounded analysis of Russian provincial youth. It is a welcome and major contribution to the study of comparative youth policies. * American Ethnologist *In this important contribution to the anthropology of postsocialist state, Julie Hemment explores the terrain of state-run youth projects in Vladimir Putin's Russia, providing a sophisticated, elaborated, and differentiated account of highly controversial projects initiated by the Kremlin in the 2000s analyzed in the context of global neoliberal forces and trends. * American Anthropologist *Hemment's book makes a strong case for the importance of continuing to think, listen, and work with one another across conventional divides, both conceptual and geopolitical. Hemment argues that it is intellectually necessary and politically imperative to challenge a resurgent Cold War rhetoric. Her book points to a way forward on both fronts.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Collaborative Possibilities, New Cold War Constraints: Ethnography in the Putin Era2. Nashi in Ideology and Practice: The Social Life of Sovereign Democracy3. Seliger 2009: "Commodify Your Talent"4. From Komsomoltsy-Dobrovoltsy to Entrepreneurial Volunteers: Technologies of Kindness5. "Arousing" Patriotism: Satire, Sincerity, and Geopolitical PlayConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[R]eaders of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses... [P]rovides a new and coherent orientation to what has been happening in the field." -Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher HoustonAfterword Michael Jackson

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHemment's research counters the larger myth of an all-powerful state pulling the strings of civic activism. She skillfully weaves together a complex picture from multiple encounters and collaborations of what does and does not motivate Russia's young future leaders, many of whom are thoughtfully struggling with what they want out of life and how that may contribute to improving the lives of those around them. * Russian Review *This fascinating book presents a highly original account of the similarities between youth policies in Russia and around the world, and gives us a novel, grounded analysis of Russian provincial youth. It is a welcome and major contribution to the study of comparative youth policies. * American Ethnologist *In this important contribution to the anthropology of postsocialist state, Julie Hemment explores the terrain of state-run youth projects in Vladimir Putin's Russia, providing a sophisticated, elaborated, and differentiated account of highly controversial projects initiated by the Kremlin in the 2000s analyzed in the context of global neoliberal forces and trends. * American Anthropologist *Hemment's book makes a strong case for the importance of continuing to think, listen, and work with one another across conventional divides, both conceptual and geopolitical. Hemment argues that it is intellectually necessary and politically imperative to challenge a resurgent Cold War rhetoric. Her book points to a way forward on both fronts.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Collaborative Possibilities, New Cold War Constraints: Ethnography in the Putin Era2. Nashi in Ideology and Practice: The Social Life of Sovereign Democracy3. Seliger 2009: "Commodify Your Talent"4. From Komsomoltsy-Dobrovoltsy to Entrepreneurial Volunteers: Technologies of Kindness5. "Arousing" Patriotism: Satire, Sincerity, and Geopolitical PlayConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is aimed at anthropologists and other scholars of education and its role in development. It will be of interest to scholars of Morocco and the Middle East/North Africa region, particularly those interested in youth culture and in growing concerns in the region about the diminishing opportunities for young people in changing regional economies. Learning in Morocco joins a number of important recent works examining these issues in the region. * H-France *This sophisticated book provides an elegant and useful analysis of the situation of teaching and learning in Moroccan schools. The book explores the numerous strategies used by students to surmount difficulties and to increase their chances of success. It reveals the remarkable influence of linguistic conflicts and the role they play in students' integration, participation, and achievement. * American Anthropologist *Learning in Morocco should be an important reference for students, researchers, and teachers working on education in the postcolonial world. * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *Charis Boutieri's study of language politics in Morocco . . . constitutes the latest in a long line of insightful anthropological studies of North African societies and cultures, and anotherne addition to Indiana University Press's 'Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa' series. * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsWriting about Language: Terminology and Transliteration 1. Schools in Crisis Part I2. Study Antigone to become a Scientist!3. Paradox and Passion in the Tower of BabelPart II4. Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited5. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Happy Old Berber CouplePart III6. Desires in Languages7. Out of Class, Into the Street NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is aimed at anthropologists and other scholars of education and its role in development. It will be of interest to scholars of Morocco and the Middle East/North Africa region, particularly those interested in youth culture and in growing concerns in the region about the diminishing opportunities for young people in changing regional economies. Learning in Morocco joins a number of important recent works examining these issues in the region. * H-France *This sophisticated book provides an elegant and useful analysis of the situation of teaching and learning in Moroccan schools. The book explores the numerous strategies used by students to surmount difficulties and to increase their chances of success. It reveals the remarkable influence of linguistic conflicts and the role they play in students' integration, participation, and achievement. * American Anthropologist *Learning in Morocco should be an important reference for students, researchers, and teachers working on education in the postcolonial world. * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *Charis Boutieri's study of language politics in Morocco . . . constitutes the latest in a long line of insightful anthropological studies of North African societies and cultures, and anotherne addition to Indiana University Press's 'Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa' series. * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsWriting about Language: Terminology and Transliteration 1. Schools in Crisis Part I2. Study Antigone to become a Scientist!3. Paradox and Passion in the Tower of BabelPart II4. Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited5. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Happy Old Berber CouplePart III6. Desires in Languages7. Out of Class, Into the Street NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFeldman successfully shows how deeply the political and religious dimensions are intertwined and enacted when guides and pilgrims navigate a sacred landscape marked with politically potent barriers. This kind of material makes A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land a wonderful case study to use in teaching about pilgrimage and tourism in a space marked by multiple narratives of competing nationalisms. * American Ethnologist *The book is recommended for anyone who has ever visited the Holy Land or worked with groups in it. * Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations *A comprehensive tour of the implications, challenges and irritations of Christian tourists guided by US-born or Sabra Jewish Israelis sharing a common, often violent history but from unequal power positions – a journey to the mutual other. In a wonderful playful way - in the most serious sense of the word – he describes his own and other guides' paradigmatic experiences as holders of the keys" to Christian pilgrims' experience of the Holy Land. All take part in a journey exploring theology, religion, politics and human nature in an enormously complex field of encounter. An intense and sometimes breathtaking, sometimes very funny, learning experience for every reader - Jewish and Christian, religious and nonreligious, pilgrim or skeptic. -- Professor Christian Staffa * Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin *Here, the author chronicles his experiences shepherding tourists, mostly Protestants, on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. . . . A unique lens through which to view the conflicted Promised Land. * Kirkus Reviews *One of the personal points that he makes is that guiding Christian pilgrims and tourists contributed towards his development of his Israeli identity. It is interesting that working myself in this specialized industry also made me more aware of my Palestinian identity and in thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that it is the "Land" that we both share. Quite a bit of the Old and New Testament writing; often enough, is expressed metaphorically. In other words, what was written was not always what was meant. The Old Testament writers and Christ himself expressed themselves in parables, allegories, and proverbs, drawing images from the land and its culture. To me it is clear that this shared land that gave rise to two national narratives, can and must incorporate these narratives. It is truly a one Land with two Nations and three Monotheistic Religions. -- Hani Abu Dayyeh * Near East Tours, President *Table of Contents1. How Guiding Christians Made Me Israeli2. Guided Holy Land Pilgrimage—Sharing the Road3. Opening Their Eyes: Performance of a Shared Protestant-Israeli Bible Land4. Christianizing the Conflict: Bethlehem and the Separation Wall5. The Goods of Pilgrimage: Tips, Souvenirs, and the Moralities of Exchange6. The Seductions of Guiding Christians7. Conclusions: Pilgrimage, Performance, and the Suspension of Disbelief

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Book SynopsisMuslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a Sart village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During their six years in Nanay, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language, befriended her neighbors, and wrote observations about their lives from birth to death. Together, Maria and Vladimir published this account, which met with great acclaim from Russia's Imperial Geographic Society and among Orientalists internationally. While they recognized that Islam shaped social attitudes, the Nalivkins never relied on common stereotypes about the plight of Muslim women. The Fergana Valley women of their ethnographic portrait emerge as lively, hard-working, clever, and able to navigate the cultural challenges of early Russian colonialism. Rich with social and cultural detail of a sort not available in othTrade ReviewThis work provides us with an enduring portrait of a moment after the Kokand Khanate was defeated, when its forms of Islamic rule were officially gone but before Russian imperial law, administration, and culture had come to dominate rural Central Asian communities. * Acta Via Serica *Markova and Kamp's translation makes available to English-language readers a resource valuable on two levels. Kamp's comprehensive introduction emphasizes the importance of this work for scholars considering the development of ethnographic method, Russian feminism, and nineteenth-century Russian scholarship more generally. * Religious Studies Review *Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is a must-read for students specializing in the history of Russia and Central Asia, women's studies, and anthropology. * H-SAE *A uniquely intimate portrait of life in an Uzbek village, by turns fascinating and frustrating. Marianne Kamp and Mariana Markova are to be thanked for their fine job of translating and editing this text. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Marianne KampA Sketch of the Everyday Life of Women of theSedentary Population of the Fergana ValleyAuthors' Preface Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina1. A Short Sketch of the Fergana Valley2. Religion and Clergy3. Houses and Utensils4. Woman's Appearance and Her Clothing5. Occupations and Food6. The Woman, Her Character, Habits, Knowledge, and Behavior towards the People around Her7. Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Girl8. The Maiden: Marriage Proposal and Marriage9. Polygyny, Divorce, Widowhood, and Death of a Woman10. ProstitutionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFeldman successfully shows how deeply the political and religious dimensions are intertwined and enacted when guides and pilgrims navigate a sacred landscape marked with politically potent barriers. This kind of material makes A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land a wonderful case study to use in teaching about pilgrimage and tourism in a space marked by multiple narratives of competing nationalisms. * American Ethnologist *The book is recommended for anyone who has ever visited the Holy Land or worked with groups in it. * Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations *A comprehensive tour of the implications, challenges and irritations of Christian tourists guided by US-born or Sabra Jewish Israelis sharing a common, often violent history but from unequal power positions – a journey to the mutual other. In a wonderful playful way - in the most serious sense of the word – he describes his own and other guides' paradigmatic experiences as holders of the keys" to Christian pilgrims' experience of the Holy Land. All take part in a journey exploring theology, religion, politics and human nature in an enormously complex field of encounter. An intense and sometimes breathtaking, sometimes very funny, learning experience for every reader - Jewish and Christian, religious and nonreligious, pilgrim or skeptic. -- Professor Christian Staffa * Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin *Here, the author chronicles his experiences shepherding tourists, mostly Protestants, on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. . . . A unique lens through which to view the conflicted Promised Land. * Kirkus Reviews *One of the personal points that he makes is that guiding Christian pilgrims and tourists contributed towards his development of his Israeli identity. It is interesting that working myself in this specialized industry also made me more aware of my Palestinian identity and in thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that it is the "Land" that we both share. Quite a bit of the Old and New Testament writing; often enough, is expressed metaphorically. In other words, what was written was not always what was meant. The Old Testament writers and Christ himself expressed themselves in parables, allegories, and proverbs, drawing images from the land and its culture. To me it is clear that this shared land that gave rise to two national narratives, can and must incorporate these narratives. It is truly a one Land with two Nations and three Monotheistic Religions. -- Hani Abu Dayyeh * Near East Tours, President *Table of Contents1. How Guiding Christians Made Me Israeli2. Guided Holy Land Pilgrimage—Sharing the Road3. Opening Their Eyes: Performance of a Shared Protestant-Israeli Bible Land4. Christianizing the Conflict: Bethlehem and the Separation Wall5. The Goods of Pilgrimage: Tips, Souvenirs, and the Moralities of Exchange6. The Seductions of Guiding Christians7. Conclusions: Pilgrimage, Performance, and the Suspension of Disbelief

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis work provides us with an enduring portrait of a moment after the Kokand Khanate was defeated, when its forms of Islamic rule were officially gone but before Russian imperial law, administration, and culture had come to dominate rural Central Asian communities. * Acta Via Serica *Markova and Kamp's translation makes available to English-language readers a resource valuable on two levels. Kamp's comprehensive introduction emphasizes the importance of this work for scholars considering the development of ethnographic method, Russian feminism, and nineteenth-century Russian scholarship more generally. * Religious Studies Review *Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is a must-read for students specializing in the history of Russia and Central Asia, women's studies, and anthropology. * H-SAE *A uniquely intimate portrait of life in an Uzbek village, by turns fascinating and frustrating. Marianne Kamp and Mariana Markova are to be thanked for their fine job of translating and editing this text. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Marianne KampA Sketch of the Everyday Life of Women of theSedentary Population of the Fergana ValleyAuthors' Preface Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina1. A Short Sketch of the Fergana Valley2. Religion and Clergy3. Houses and Utensils4. Woman's Appearance and Her Clothing5. Occupations and Food6. The Woman, Her Character, Habits, Knowledge, and Behavior towards the People around Her7. Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Girl8. The Maiden: Marriage Proposal and Marriage9. Polygyny, Divorce, Widowhood, and Death of a Woman10. ProstitutionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency charged with providing assistance to Palestinians since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and residents of three camps in Syria. Over time, UNRWA's management of the camps reveals a shift from an emphasis on humanitarian aid to promotion of self-sufficiency and integration of refugees within their host society. Gabiam's analysis captures two forces in tension within the camps: politics of suffering that serves to keep alive the discourse around the Palestinian right of return; and politics of citizenship expressed through development projects that seek to close the divide between the camp and the city. Gabiam offers compelling insights into the plight of Palestinians before and during the Syrian war, which has led to devastation in the camps and masTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on TransliterationContributors1. Sharia Law and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Ethics. Robert W. HefnerSection 1: Sharia Pluralities2. Sharia and the Rule of Law. Anver M. Enom3. Moral Contestations and Patriarchal Ethics: Women Challenging the Justice of Muslim Family Laws. Ziba Mir-Hosseini4. Gender, Legality, and Public Ethics in Morocco. Zakia SalimeSection 2: Islamic Law and the State5. Constitutionalizing a Democratic Muslim State without Sharia: The Religious Establishment in the Tunisian 2014 Constitution. Malika Zeghal6. Transformations in Muslim Views about "Forbidding Wrong": The Rise and Fall of Islamist Litigation in Egypt. Clark B. Lombardi and Connie J. Cannon7. Sharia, Islamic Ethics, and Democracy: The Crisis of the "Turkish Model." Ahmet T. Kuru8. Islamic Modernism, Ethics, and Sharia in Pakistan. Muhammad Qasim ZamanSection 3: New Ethical Imbrications9. "Sharia" as a Moving Target? The Reconfiguration of Regional and National Fields of Muslim Debate in Mali. Dorothea E. Schulz10. Syariah, Inc.: Continuities, Transformations, and Cultural Politics in Malaysia's Islamic Judiciary. Michael G. Peletz11. Islamic Ethics and Muslim Feminism in Indonesia. Robert W. Hefner

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Book SynopsisMany Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that, contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future. They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on TransliterationContributors1. Sharia Law and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Ethics. Robert W. HefnerSection 1: Sharia Pluralities2. Sharia and the Rule of Law. Anver M. Enom3. Moral Contestations and Patriarchal Ethics: Women Challenging the Justice of Muslim Family Laws. Ziba Mir-Hosseini4. Gender, Legality, and Public Ethics in Morocco. Zakia SalimeSection 2: Islamic Law and the State5. Constitutionalizing a Democratic Muslim State without Sharia: The Religious Establishment in the Tunisian 2014 Constitution. Malika Zeghal6. Transformations in Muslim Views about "Forbidding Wrong": The Rise and Fall of Islamist Litigation in Egypt. Clark B. Lombardi and Connie J. Cannon7. Sharia, Islamic Ethics, and Democracy: The Crisis of the "Turkish Model." Ahmet T. Kuru8. Islamic Modernism, Ethics, and Sharia in Pakistan. Muhammad Qasim ZamanSection 3: New Ethical Imbrications9. "Sharia" as a Moving Target? The Reconfiguration of Regional and National Fields of Muslim Debate in Mali. Dorothea E. Schulz10. Syariah, Inc.: Continuities, Transformations, and Cultural Politics in Malaysia's Islamic Judiciary. Michael G. Peletz11. Islamic Ethics and Muslim Feminism in Indonesia. Robert W. Hefner

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